Professor Weisbrot is an Emeritus Professor of Law and Honorary Professorial Fellow in Medicine at the University of Sydney.He has written about law and social change, and recently chaired the law and genetics inquiry.

Having risen to become a star of the international comedy circuit as one third of the edgy and politically incorrect Doug Anthony All Stars, Tim Ferguson was forced to quit the group at the height of its powers in the mid-1990s, finding he could no longer cope with the frenetic lifestyle he was leading. The reason he couldn't cope, it turns out, was that he was battling multiple sclerosis.

On the thirtieth anniversary of Australia II's epochal victory in the 1983 America's Cup, skipper John Bertrand looks back at what his crew's win meant for the nation, and what it was like to end the longest running winning streak in world sport.